Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-04-14
Night Gloves.


The remarkable discovery has recent
ly been made that ...white hands are
coming into fashion again. 1t would
seem that hands have been growing
less white than they used to be, and
have suffered from 50 great attachment
in ladies to lawn tennis and other mas
culine accoins lishments. "Chapped
and red hands are never pretty, and
these, of course, invariably follow on
outdoor exercise. The evil is, happily,
not beyond remedy, and to effect this
purpose the daughters of fashion, as
many of them viii learn with surprise,
now have dishes of hot water, shaped
like flower-leaf, on their toilet tables,
in which they steep their hands for
while before going to bed, then anoint
them with yaseline, and put on gloves
lined with preparation of cold cream.
These gloves should be of wash lcath-
er, and several sizes too large for the
hand"
Before this paragraph has gone It's
tardy round in print these night
gloves win surely be made an instance
of the amazing luxury of our degener-
ate days, and point we may be sure,
very doleful moral In the absence Of
any general knowledge on this point,
the ladies of fashion will be looked up
on as having originated a pernicious
practice, which, taken together with
the toilet masks of which we recently
heard so much and saw so little, might
indicate lamentable degree of over
refinement, such, rs we should certain
ly be reminded, has invariably preceded
the decay of empires.
One old recipe for perfuming gloves
runs: Take amber-grease dram, ciyet
the like quantity, orange-iiower butter
a quarter of an ounce, and with these
well mixed and ordered daub them over
gently with fine cotton wool and SO
press the perfume into them. Other
devices for making them ''richly redo
lent point generally TO the use of oil
of fats as being the best available and
most largely employed means to Sc
cure good and lasting perfume. As
for such gloves being considered ex-
cellent for night use, we have the lines
in Swift's poem on the Ladies Dress
ing-Room, = showing on the table:
There night gloves made of Trpsey's hide,
Bcqueath'd 10y Isipsey when She died.
Where lady's maid is reassuring
her mistress, III a poem of 1890, as to
her superiority over u rival, the maid
says:
know the arts she labors to dis~uise
know whence oil her boosted gl,aces rise:
Those charms which gained the creature such
renOwn,
Are Guild from every quarter of the town;
She buys her beauties at price immense,
Her breath from Warren and her teeth from
Each night her face is wrapped in greasy
bands
And Chinese gloves enfold her arms and
hands;
If such a made-up thing can rival thee,
Let park canals strive with the foamng sea;
Let Oxford hacks with Pegasus compare,
And broad st. Giles vie with Portland square.
There would be some suspicion of
chemical treatment about such gloves.
Although French philosopher some
time ago asserted that glovers, of all
artisans, were the most mild and ami
able, owing to the soothing influence
of leather upon temperament, this dis
covcry had not been made when Chi
nese gloves were in vogue, and more
direct agencies acting upon the outer
man or woman were all that were
sought after. ''Medicated" gloves
are used by Dr.. Johnson's born beauty
in the 130th ''Rambler," the doctor
probably not knowing much Of toilet
mysteries. This young lady is repre-
sented us always most carefully tend
ed, and put under rigid cosmetic dis
dipi.ue TT night. never permitted to
sleep un,il thoroughly anointed with
.'bcla-t0wcr water and May dews,"
her io;s perfuned and oiled, and the
soi,t.4ss D. iier Aa.ids secured by medi-
Gated gloves. --Lo,h{2n queen